The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-29
An Opportunity for an Enterprfsfng
Citizen-Will DIR. Geo. B. Morris
Respond

Respond
We believe that DIR. Geo. Il. Nor
ris is entitled to be estimated as one
of the most enterprising citizens OF
our town.
He is so at heart. He takes a
hearty interest in public improve
ments. He has an earnest desire to
see the town advance. He is always
ready to advocate and to help any
legitimate public enterprise. He
believes in being up with the times.
He don't sit and bubble about his
taxes or throw himself in the way Of
improvements because they cost
something. He has sufficient bust
ness foresight to see and appreciate
the fact that every taxpayer who
pays for public improvements at the
same time is paying for private ben
efits-he enhances the value of his
individual interests in the communi-
ty. He has business sense enough
to discern that the Individuals Of
community are necessarily partner
ship in a certain measure, and have
a common veal and common risk
from which they cannot escape.
DIR. Morris was one Of the fore
most men in advocating, encourag-
ing, and in every possible way pro-
noting the building of railroad to
Morgantown, and no man ever de-
rived more hearty enjoyment and
satisfaction from the completion Of
a public enterprise than did he from
the opening of the F. M. d P. rail
road to Morgantow. His heart was
in it, and he was glad for the boon
it brought to his adopted town.
So it is with the Doctor in regard
to every other enterprise that will
contribute to the advancement of
his town. Whatever public improve
ments and comforts other towns
have he wants his town to have. He
knows what is going on in the world,
and is annoyed if his town does not
keep abreast of the times.
We do not say these things to fat
ter our esteemed citizen, but rather
as an explanation and justification
of making public appeal in this
manner to his spirit of enterprise
and local pride in behalf of public
need in which his town is interested,
and in relation to which he, Of all
other citizens, is in position to do
his town a great service.
We refer to the 'long felt want"
of Town Hall.
DIR. Morris owns corner lot at
the junction of Walnut and Spruce
streets, which is in every respect
specially adopted to the purposes Of
a town ball.
1t is central. 1t is accessible. 1t
is vacant, and moreover it is not well
adapted to any other purpose. 1t is
so beseiged with filthy stables and
pig-sties as to make it unsuited to
the purposes of dwelling, and yet
not to materially interfere with its
adaptability for town hall.
AS it now stands, it is valuable
lot which is almost utterly useless
to its owner, and of which he can
apparently make no use except for
the purpose we have indicated.
DR.. Morris has abundant means
to carry out this project if he SO de-
sires, He could build a splendid
hall and never miss the money, or
he could build a cheap and suitable
building which would pay him a
good profit on the investment, while
comforting a great benefit on the
community. 1t would be the sole
and exclusive resort of every public
entertainment. 1t would become the
popular centre with which the whole
people would soon become familiar
and this very fact would make it a
good point for other kinds of bust
ness, so that the same building
might contain other compartments
in connection with the hall, which
could be readily rented--a photo
graph gallery, for instance, or mar
ket stalls as basis for weekly Oh
semi-weekly market, which we very
much need.
Now, there is no other project
which, it strikes us, appeals SO di
rectly and forcibly to the public
spirit and pride of our esteemed citi
zen, DR.. Morris, than the one VI
name; none that would do him great
er credit; none that would gain him
a greater measure of public graft
tude, and none from which, we ven
ture to predict, he would hereafte'
derive more personal satisfaction
When it should come to be tina
morris Hall'' was the popular re
sort of the town, in which all tn
people felt pride.
What response will DIR. Morris
make to this appeal?